Hey, remember the ’80s and early ’90s, when parents could serve their kids a bowl of Zoodles and a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner, which the kids ate off of TV trays while enjoying an episode of “The Simpsons” (if they had cool parents, the 6 p.m. news if not) and no one questioned anyone’s decisions?How exactly did those same kids grow up, become parents, and suddenly feel the need to stay up to midnight batch-cooking whole-grain casseroles and packing elaborat

OTTAWA — A familiar U.S. face finally showed up front and centre on the federal campaign trail Saturday: Donald Trump.NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh promised to go toe-to-toe with the mercurial, unpredictable American president just as Justin Trudeau’s Liberals released a new English-language ad touting their own record in confronting the White House during last year’s tension-fraught NAFTA talks.“You fight a guy like that — you just don’t back up, you don’t b

A resident of Port Moody, B.C., got quite the Friday the 13th surprise when they heard their car alarm go off early in the morning.Upon investigation, they discovered something completely unexpected: a black bear had climbed into their unlocked vehicle and then gotten stuck inside.A video posted by Port Moody Police on Twitter shows the bear wreaking havoc after locking itself inside, pulling at seatbelts and trying to escape.“How does a bear get into somebody’s car and lock the door

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s plans for a “down day” to take his family to a wave pool were rattled Saturday after he was pressed about an Ottawa-area candidate’s friendship with white supremacist Faith Goldy.Scheer faced new questions about his party’s links with Goldy after an undated video surfaced showing a reality show pilot pitched by the Kanata-Carleton candidate Justina McCaffrey and the controversial far-right figure. McCaffrey, a weddi

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — The federal Conservatives say a university campus recruitment flyer bemoaning “left-wing” professors is just meant to be a funny way to grab the attention of right-leaning students.The flyers began appearing on at least one Toronto university campus this week, with a picture of leader Andrew Scheer standing in front of a brick wall, a party logo and email address people can use if they want to volunteer.In large print, the poster reads: “Because you ca

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. — Two people are dead after a bus rolled over on Vancouver Island on Friday night.The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC) in Victoria, B.C., says the incident happened on a gravel road between the communities of Port Alberni and Bamfield and that it received a call for assistance at around 10 p.m.Air Force Capt. David Burneau says three people were airlifted to a hospital in Victoria with serious or critical injuries.He says the Port Alberni Fire Department transpor

OTTAWA — The federal food safety watchdog says a brand of baby formula has been recalled due to rancidity and the product being off-colour.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says Abbott Laboratories is recalling its Calcilo XD powder.The CFIA says there have been reported illness associated with the consumption of the product, but it did not specify how many were affected.The agency says rancid food has an unusual odour and should not be consumed as it may cause symptoms such as nausea, v

TORONTO — Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh delivered a frank message to corporate Canada on Friday, saying it is time for companies and the wealthy to start paying their fair shares as everyday Canadians struggle to make ends meet.Singh also faced questions about what an NDP government’s relationship with the private sector would look like, given his sustained attacks, and whether his policies could drive away business, jobs and economic prosperity.Hours after promising a cap on cell

MONTREAL — Experts say a pair of Liberal proposals to make home ownership more attainable would have a negligible impact, particularly in markets like Vancouver, Victoria and the Greater Toronto Area where home prices continue to soar beyond the reach of many.The Liberals rolled out proposals for a nationwide foreign buyers tax and an expanded assistance program for first-time home buyers in those three cities as part of their election campaign.Tsur Somerville, a real estate expert at the

OTTAWA — An Liberal ad campaign worth over $11,000 is the first purchase recorded in Twitter’s new transparency centre for Canadian political ads.The Liberal Party of Canada is, as of Friday, the only political campaigning advertiser listed in Twitter’s online database (along with the party’s French-language account).The Liberals have spent roughly $11,400 promoting four tweets since the first full day of campaigning Thursday.The most expensive campaign — which

A star Green candidate’s comments about his unabashed support for Quebec sovereignty, and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May’s response, has Canadians puzzling over the difference between Quebec separatism and sovereignty.Pierre Nantel, arguably the party’s best-known candidate in Quebec, told Radio-Canada Thursday he was indeed an avowed Quebec sovereignist (also spelled sovereigntist), one day after May said he wasn’t.“Of course I’m a sovereigntist, everyone k

TORONTO — A dental hygienist branded as a sexual abuser and stripped of his licence because he treated his wife has lost his bid to have the punishment overturned.Ontario’s Divisional Court decision upholding the “harsh” punishment for Alexandru Tanase comes even though regulators have proposed allowing hygienists to treat spouses as dentists may do.“There is no other case of any dental hygienist anywhere in Canada who has been found guilty of sexual abuse for treat

TORONTO — A dental hygienist branded as a sexual abuser and stripped of his licence because he treated his wife has lost his bid to have the punishment overturned.Ontario’s Divisional Court decision upholding the “harsh” punishment for Alexandru Tanase comes even though regulators have proposed allowing hygienists to treat spouses as dentists may do.“There is no other case of any dental hygienist anywhere in Canada who has been found guilty of sexual abuse for treat

OTTAWA — More expatriate Canadians than ever before have registered to vote in this federal election, HuffPost Canada has learned.Nearly 20,000 expats are now part of the international register of electors, and those who live abroad have until Oct. 15 to add their names. The boost — from 15,603 in 2015 to 19,784 so far — comes as a new law kicks in granting those who have been out of Canada for decades the right to vote. An estimated 1.4 million more Canadians may now be a

Justin Trudeau was mentioned briefly during a U.S. Democratic presidential debate Thursday — or more specifically his hair was. The Democratic candidates vying for the 2020 race were asked about the U.S. trade relationship with China and whether they would repeal the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.Sen. Cory Booker, who represents New Jersey, pointed out that Trump’s direction from trade to climate change is an “America-alone” policy that is “pulling

TORONTO — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s campaign promise that he will make maternity and parental leave benefits “tax free” is misleading, say tax experts.His party is actually promising a tax refund of 15 per cent, which is substantially different, according to Lindsay Tedds, an economic policy professor at the University of Calgary. “It’s a dramatic misrepresentation that’s going to lead to some families making decisions based off of inaccur

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to bring back the public transit tax credit, which the party says is part of its environment plan.The Liberal government cut the tax credit in the 2017 budget, saying it was ineffective and they would rather spend the money on building transit.The Conservatives say their measure, which they are calling the Green Public Transit Tax Credit, would give people a 15-per-cent credit at tax time.The party says monthly and weekly t

TORONTO — A former deputy commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police is suing Premier Doug Ford and top staff for wrongful termination, abuse of public office and violations of his fundamental rights in a $15-million lawsuit. Brad Blair and his lawyer announced the lawsuit at a press conference at Queen’s Park Friday. Blair is already suing Ford for $5 million for defamation. The Ontario premier publicly accused Blair of breaking the Police Services Act, a claim that the

OTTAWA — The RCMP has charged one of its own with several offences under Canada’s official-secrets law.The national police force says Cameron Ortis was charged under three sections of the Security of Information Act, and with two Criminal Code offences.It says the charges stem from activities alleged to have occurred during his tenure as an RCMP employee, and it was not immediately clear whether he was still employed by the force. According to CBC News, Ortis was a senior m

Kaillie Humphries, a two-time Olympic bobsled gold medallist for Canada and one of the top drivers in her sport’s history, is planning to race for the United States this coming season and beyond — including at the 2022 Beijing Olympics.Humphries has been seeking her release from Canada for several weeks, and she has filed suit against Bobsleigh Canada in an effort to expedite that release. She is marrying former U.S. men’s bobsledder Travis Armbruster on Saturday, and that woul

Why did the jaywalker cross the road? To get hit with some karma on the other side. A new compilation clip posted on a YouTube channel dedicated to driver fails shows a number of hazards on the highways. But one moment getting attention on digg focuses not so much on a dreadful driver as a poor pedestrian. In this case, it’s a jaywalker who appears to glare at a stopped motorist as he crosses the road.He made it to the other side safely, but encountered a problem o

Parents just want their children to be safe — to make it out of childhood, and all the scary things that threaten it, unscathed and in one piece. But too many restrictions on their freedom could actually be detrimental to their health: kids today are far less fit than they were a generation ago.Not only are they less fit, but they’re also “weaker and fatter,” too, say the researchers behind “Running Free: Children’s Independent Mobility,” a new docu

Millennials are doing most of the borrowing as Canadian consumer debt rapidly heads towards the $2-trillion mark. But what if you had to pass a test prove you could afford to borrow in the first place? The idea could save us from ourselves. RELATEDCanada’s Millennials May Have A Mortgage Fraud ProblemDebt Soars Among Canada’s Young Adults, But It’s Not Mortgages5 Ways Plunging Interest Rates Are Changing Canadians’ LivesCanadians Are Stressing Over Money And It's Cos

OTTAWA — Green Party Leader Elizabeth May lampooned Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer Thursday by claiming he would be nothing more than a puppet for U.S. President Donald Trump should he become prime minister. May made the comment during the first federal leaders’ debate that she, Scheer, and New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh attended.“I looked at your policies on foreign policy today, Andrew, and I realized if anyone wants to know where you stand just figure out what Tru

TORONTO — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Thursday that his party can’t support a United Nations declaration on Indigenous rights because it could let “one group of individuals” hold resource projects “hostage.”During the first leaders’ debate, Green Leader Elizabeth May pressed Scheer on why Conservative senators blocked a bill that would have ensured Canada’s laws to be in harmony with UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN

A simmering battle between federal Greens and New Democrats took centre stage at the first leaders’ debate of the election campaign Thursday, where some of the sharpest jabs were exchanged between Elizabeth May and Jagmeet Singh.Though Greens and the NDP share similar priorities — from fighting climate change to bringing in national pharmacare — polls suggest they are currently in a dogfight for third place and, potentially, the balance of power in a future minority Parliament.

During the first federal election debate on Thursday night, Elizabeth May, Andrew Scheer and Jagmeet Singh duked it over issues ranging from climate change to Israel to U.S. president Donald Trump.They disagreed on many points, but on one topic they were all united: Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.In fact, the current prime minister’s name was invoked at least 50 times, according to our debate transcript.50! With the total debate spanning around 104 minutes, that’s a “Trudeau&rdq

Organizers of the Maclean’s/CityTV leaders debate decided to lean into the drama for the federal election’s first debate and leave an empty podium for Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, who declined to attend. While Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May lined up behind their respective lecterns, one podium was conspicuously absent for the Liberal leader.Debate moderator Paul Wells welcomed viewers to the debate with a simple

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — A moose that may have had a yearning for learning smashed its way into the Peace River North School District office in Fort St. John, B.C.Jarrod Bell, a director of instruction in the district, says it was just before closing on Wednesday when he heard what sounded like an entire band of cymbal players falling down the stairs.Instead, he came out of his office to see a young moose in the building’s foyer that had crashed through the glass front door.He says seve

KELOWNA, B.C. — A provincial court judge has served up a searing decision to a driver in Kelowna, B.C., who was spotted eating with chopsticks in one hand and a bowl of spinach in the other.Judicial justice Brian Burgess handed down the ruling in Kelowna traffic court in August, finding the “egregious” offence took place in the city last November as Corinne Jackson drove past a roadside vehicle enforcement operation.The RCMP officer who flagged Jackson’s vehicle testified